Closed Bug 336468 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Design problem with the URL window

Categories

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

PowerPC
macOS
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233541

People

(Reporter: David, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 This isn't properly speaking a "bug" because it's been designed to do this however... Firefox has one really annoying gremlin - it doesn't follow the precident set in the Mosaic/Netscape days for abbreviations defaulting to the .com site appropriate to the abreviation in its URL window - i.e type boats you'll get boats.com fine, but type houses and you'll get http://www.parliament.uk/ - wtf? - that's because it's basically taking whatever sits at the number one slot of google's search list... How long before that's an paid for advert? I can see with open source that there'd be nothing to stop this being an option in preferences - but why make this a dafault? - especially as there's a google window sitting right next to the URL window. Sooner or later one of the big boys who's paid a lot for their domain name is going to litigate because their links are effectively diverting to a rival I'd have thought? Couple of forum debates about it at your forums and here too http://forums.maccentral.com/wwwthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=general&Number=838814&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=7 Reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233541 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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